Jay Maddock: The Profound Health Benefits of Nature Exposure In As Little As 120 Minutes Per Week
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Are you spending 8 hours a day in front of screens? It’s time to give your brain a break with nature! Discover how just 120 minutes a week outdoors can transform your mood, boost executive function, and even improve your immune system. From walking in a local park to engaging in forest bathing, this video explores the profound mental and physical health benefits of reconnecting with the environment.
What You'll Learn in This Episode- How outdoor exposure boosts physical and mental health
- The science behind 10-minute, 90-minute, and weekend doses of nature
- Why hospital patients recover faster with a window view
- How cities, schools, and even prisons are using green space to reduce disease
- What “nature deficit disorder” is doing to kids and adults alike
- How to design your life for more sun, soil, and space
Hear about groundbreaking research on nature exposure, its impact on PTSD, urban design for green spaces, and how nature prescriptions are reshaping healthcare. Tune in to learn how small doses of nature can make a big difference for your well-being!
SponsorsThis episode of The Ready State Podcast is brought to you by Laird Superfood, The World As You'll Know It podcast, Momentous, and LMNT.
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| 0:00.0 | The average adult spends eight hours a day in front of a screenwriter. |
| 0:03.0 | It was four hours a day in 2012. |
| 0:05.0 | When you walk in nature, it turns off the part of the brain related to executive function. |
| 0:09.0 | So your brain's actually taking a break when you're in nature. |
| 0:12.0 | Fifteen times the amount of people in parks in China compared to what we found in Chicago. |
| 0:17.0 | How much time are people actually spending outside? |
| 0:19.0 | 120 minutes a week is kind of seen as the minimum to get the health benefits. |
| 0:22.7 | Most people spend a lot less than that. |
| 0:24.9 | More than 95% of people's day is indoors. |
| 0:29.2 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Laird Superfood. |
| 0:33.7 | And I have a little story to tell this past weekend. |
| 0:36.4 | Kelly was traveling down in Los Angeles and sent me a text around 10 o'clock in the morning saying, |
| 0:42.5 | I still haven't had coffee. |
| 0:43.9 | And if you know us, you know that we're usually trying to drink coffee within like three minutes of waking up. |
| 0:50.8 | But for better or worse. |
| 0:51.8 | Good coffee. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, good. |
| 0:53.6 | We really care about good coffee and make sure we put really good quality things into our coffee. |
| 1:00.0 | And we find it to be like a whole experience. |
| 1:03.0 | One of the things that happened is I traveled down for a big tournament and worked with a team. |
| 1:09.0 | And lo and behold did not bring Laird sort of our instant coffee |
| 1:14.3 | with Kramer or did you bring in Kramer. So I always travel with those two things because number one, |
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